The common computer terminal room has about 20 terminals including personal computers (PC compatible and Machintosh) which are used by members and visitors at the Yukawa Institute. And in another terminal room in Yukawa Hall, there are several terminals mainly for vistors who will stay in some period to attend workshops etc. at the Yukawa Institute.
The Yukawa Institute has several workstaions for scientific calculations and other workstions and the personal computers are also used as indispensable tools for research by all the people at the institute. Most of the workstations at the Yukawa Institute are open to people doing rearch at other universities or institutions in Japan.
Computer terminal room in the main building
The center maintains the HEP database with SLAC (the Stanford Linear
Accelerator Ceter) in USA and some other institutes in the world. The
HEP database has the information on the world-wide research papers in
high energy physics and its related fields.
SPIRES
(Stanford Public Information Retrieval System) runs on the
IBM9221 system at our institute, which gives the
HEP database service via computer networks.
The electronic preprints (e-prints) archive server is running at the
center.
The master server is running at LANL (Los Alamos National
Laboraty) in USA and here one of the clone servers is running.
The Information Center has WWW,
gopher
and anonymous-ftp servers,
and the e-prints are retrieved via WWW, anonymous-ftp and e-mail.